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Marriage Challenge: Show Consideration For Your Spouse
Marriage Challenge: Show Consideration For Your Spouse
Rudeness has a way of creeping up on us in our marriages. Sometimes we don’t even realize we’re doing it. In that case, we’ve normalized disrespectful, or even crude, behavior toward our spouse. And maybe they’ve given up trying to make us change.
Today’s marriage challenge comes directly from the book The Love Dare by Alex and Stephen Kendrick. “Ask your spouse to tell you three things that cause him or her to be uncomfortable or irritated with you. You must do so without attacking them or justifying your behavior. This is from their perspective only.”
This simple act may open our eyes to some rude behaviors we need to change in our marriages. And if we care what our spouse thinks, we will go out of our way to make these changes a reality.
“He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be reckoned a curse to him.”
-Proverbs 27:14 NASB
Bible Quiz
1. Which son of Adam and Eve did Christ descend from?
a. Cain
b. Abel
c. Seth
d. George
2. How many days did Jesus live on earth after he raised from the dead?
a. 7
b. 10
c. 12
d. 40
3. “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should _____, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished _____ to all men by _____ Him from the dead.”
3. repent, proof, raising (Acts 17:30-31). 1. c. (Luke 3:38). 2. d. (Acts 1:3).
